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BoBunny Delilah Envelope + Card

I used this lovely BoBunny PP + Cutouts + American Crafts cardstock to put together a little card & envelope:

Here are step by step instructions, just for you:

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Delilah Envelope and Card Wendymadeit

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KSK Design Team’s Choice

We’re looking for YOUR projects!

We’ll be trawling through the KSK Gallery, looking for a wonderful Project uploaded by our Members that we can post in the KSK Forum  & use it to highlight some great techniques, or colour combos, or brilliant use of design principles.

If one of your projects is chosen, you’ll also be profiled in a KSK Newsletter!

But wait, there’s more!! You’ll also receive a Surprise Package from Karen!!

Sound good? Well, all you have to do is get uploading your projects into the KSK Gallery!

Christmas Gift Register

Is it just me, or does everyone have this problem?
Each year, I struggle to remember if I have already given someone the gift I am looking at giving them!
So, I have made this book to record what we give each year. I have a section for each of our families and us and friends, plus a section at the back for ideas lists and pockets for catalog pictures etc.
I cannot wait to use this next year – I am going to be super organised!!! LOL!

PP – Basic Grey Tidings/Wintermint + Boxer/Vintage Tee, Urban Prairie/Corn Husk; Halfway Cafe Kingman; Bohemia 2 Large Medallion/Orange; Making Memories FaLaLa Geometric + Die cut Artisian + Music Notes, MM Ledger Esq; October Afternoon; Kaisercraft Vagabond.

Alphas – Basic Grey, Making Memories Falala mini alpha

Die Cuts – sheet Halfway Cafe; Sizzix Dies.

Book – KSK chipboard tab booklet and Bind-it-all binding.

Digital Elements – Sande Krieger Seasons Greetings 2

TFL ;]

Wooden Letters

These letters come up great when decorated.  Paint them, cover with pattern paper and embellish.

Calendar Journal

I made this Calendar/Journal using black chipboard covers, zutter closures, Collections file tabs and Wendy’s 2009 calendar.  Karen

6 Cards in 60 Minutes

Teresa Collins Tis the Season Christmas Cards

Teresa Collins is one of my favourite designers and I absolutely love this Christmas line she did! These cards were so quick and easy to pull together and you can easily make all six in under 60 minutes.  I used Tis the Season Tags as a base for all of the cards.  They measure about 8cm x 14cm and are the perfect fit for pre-made blank cards that are 10.5cm x 14.9cm. Other papers I used were Tis the Season Christmas Notes, the flip side of Tis the Season Checklist and the flip side of Teresa Collins Travelogue Compass.  I made my own Christmas tree template which measures 3cm wide x 9cm high for the green tree and 3cm x 8.5cm for the black tree.  I used a punch for the star and if you don’t have one you can create your own with Publisher or search for a clipart star on the internet.  Print up your own Merry Christmas and 2008 words and you’re done!

You can find the Teresa Collins Tis the Season papers here and the Teresa Collins Travelogue papers here.

Merry Christmas everyone!  Kim Allard

Kim’s 2009 Calendar Kit

My calendar is a little different to Wendy’s (also using Daisy Bucket – In the Meadows papers), but would also make a great Christmas gift that is very personalised.

If you are using the ‘Kim’s Calendar Kit’ from KSK everything you need should be in your kit. Your cardboard bases will be pre-cut to 15cm x 15cm and you will need to cut all your patterned papers into 15cm squares. If you are not using the kit you will need 13 squares of heavy weight cardboard or chipboard (ordinary cardstock won’t be thick enough to support the weight of the calendar) and 7 sheets of 12×12 patterned paper…you can PM me if you want the calendar and I will email it to you.

I apologise that there are no progress photos…I took them as I made the calendar and my darling husband somehow lost them.

I painted the outside edges of my chipboard squares…it’s up to you whether you can be bothered with that. You will need two holes on one edge and one on the opposite edge of each piece of board.  The two holes will appear at the top of the calendar page and the bottom of your photo/decorated pages. Depending on the type of punch you are using you may want to adhere your patterned sheets to your cardstock before punching. I used an ordinary two hole punch (the one you use to punch holes into papers for folders) and I found the cardboard and paper together were too thick to fit in the punch. If you need to punch them separately use each individual cardboard base as a template for the sheet that you will be adhering to it. Line up your paper on your cardboard and draw your holes on so that you know where to punch.

Your calendar months should be pre-printed in your kit. Months start with January at the top left and go across, then down, across, etc.  January to June on one sheet and July to December on the other.  Mark the backs of each month before you cut them up (if it hasn’t already been done by Karen).  I used a corner rounder punch to get the rounded corners. The ‘notes’ section on your calendar is printed on the green cardstock.  Create a text box that is 3.7cm wide by 12.2cm long and add lines.  For those with A4 printers you will fit 10 ‘notes’ sections on an A4  sheet of cardstock and you will need to print your remaining two on the left over strip of cardstock.

On your white cardstock you will print your month titles and important dates.  I included public holidays, school term dates and family birthdays in my important dates for each month.  The text box for your important dates needs to be as wide as your calendar months.  The text boxes for the month titles are 1.2cm high and varying widths.  You can find public holiday dates and school terms dates for your state by doing a search on the internet. 

I inked the edges of all pieces before going onto the calendar. Decorate your top pages as you wish with photos or quotes.  Join your calendar pages with rings or ribbons.

I think that’s it!  If you have any questions feel free to private message me via the KSK forum (username IthinkthereforeIscrap).

Kim Allard

Ed’s note:  You can find Kim’s gorgeous Calendar Kit instore here.

Calendars

Calendars are a fun and functional Christmas gift idea.  I’ve used Daisy Bucket In the Meadow papers and Wendy’s calendar.